Detail

Area

Japan

Commodity Group

Meat

Commodity

Bovine meat

Date

01/05/2016

Policy Category

Trade

Policy Instrument

Import ban lifted

Description

Lifted an embargo on bovine meat imports from Italy, following the 2013 opening of its market to bovine meat from some other EU Member States (France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark and Sweden). The ban on bovine meat imports from the EU was introduced in 2001, due to the perceived risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) contamination.